St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4 Home Practice 22nd April 2022
Date: 22nd Apr 2022 @ 3:32pm
Year 4
Home Practice 22nd April 2022
What lovely weather for our first week back after the Easter break. Well done for working so hard Year 4 – you all looked very smart in your summer uniforms too.
This is what we’ve been learning this week …
In English, we finished our class novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’. We wrote a character description of Kensuke, including information about his appearance, his hobbies, and his emotions and feelings. In addition, we planned a book review which we will be writing next week.
In our Maths lessons, we used factors to help with more tricky multiplications. We also learnt how to use the grid method to multiply a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number. In addition, we started our division topic which involved halving some quite tricky numbers. During these topics, Year 4 have realised how important it is to know their times tables!
In RE, we started our new topic of Pentecost and ‘New Life’. First, we discussed how good news brings life and responded to our own experiences of how when good things happen, it brings us new life and happiness. Then, we discussed the meaning of Pentecost and described the actions, symbols and colour in a painting depicting Pentecost.
In Science, we carried out an experiment to investigate whether the amount of water affected the time taken for it to evaporate completely. Following this, we discussed whether our experiment was fair and how we could improve it. Well done Year 4, you are becoming experts on carrying out experiments and recording results.
In French, we looked at some examples of Henri Matisse’s art works, some of which we preferred to others! The children had some great, individual ideas of what the artist might have been trying to portray. We recapped the vocabulary needed to describe them, ready to write about our chosen picture next week.
We practised and developed our throwing and catching skills in PE. We then used these skills to play mini games of cricket. Well done Year 4 – you worked well to improve these skills.
We enjoyed our outdoor learning making shelters outside. We made some fantastic and very imaginative shelters and showed some great team working skills. We are looking forward to making shelters again and improving our designs.
This week’s Home Practice ….
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Times tables
You have been given your own individual times table target. Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Thursday (28th April 2022). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Remember - you can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’ and https://www.timestables.co.uk/
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 2’s and 0.2’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up. When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.
Count in 2’s
For example, start at 0 and count up to 24 and back again (this will help with your 2 times table)
0 2 4 6 24 22 20 etc
Start at 85 and count up to 105 and back again
85 87 89 105 103 101 etc
Count in 0.2’s
Start at 0.2 and count up to 2.4 and back again
0.2 0.4 0.6 2.4 2.2 2.0 etc
Start at 23.2 and count up to 25.2 and back again
23.2 23.4 23.6 25.2 25.0 24.8 etc
Spellings
The spellings this week all have the prefix ‘anti’. A prefix is a group of letters that are added to the beginning of a word, and which change the meaning or make a new word. ‘Anti’ means against. You will be tested on them next Thursday (28th April 2022).
antiwrinkle antibody antifreeze antidote
anticlimax antisocial antiseptic anti-aircraft
anti-aging antihero antivirus anticlockwise
antiperspirant antibodies antihistamine
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A times table challenge based on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables
- A maths challenge based on recognising and using factor pairs
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!
Online safety update
Please read our guide for TikTok below.
In this guide you will find tips on a number of potential risks such as age inappropriate content, addiction and in app spending.
Number bonds
Number bonds are very important and help with many aspects of maths. The more confident you are with these, the easier you will find addition, subtraction, mental calculations etc. Therefore, please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button
The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:
8 + 6 you could partition this into 8 + 2 + 4 = 14
This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10
Click on the link above, then on Play Game.
Click on Number bonds
On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’
Click on Addition within 20
See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.
Maths and spelling training
Please continue to use the maths and spellings training sections as these are tailored for your child to practise skills, facts and words that they find difficult.